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Re:Amazon satellites add to astronomers' worries about night sky
on Thursday August 13, 2020 @11:13AM (#24144178)
Do what? Point out the petulance and inconsistency of astronomers?
Re:Intel’s 11th Gen Core Tiger Lake SoC Detailed
on Thursday August 13, 2020 @10:13AM (#24143513)
Not according to security researchers.
Re:Intel’s 11th Gen Core Tiger Lake SoC Detailed
on Thursday August 13, 2020 @10:02AM (#24143421)
Can I get this particular Intel rig without the Intel ME backdoors courtesy of the Talpiot program?
No? OK then, I'll stick with Ryzen.
Re:"Rust does not have a stable ABI"
on Thursday August 13, 2020 @10:00AM (#24143399)
Why are people even using Rust and Go, aside from employer say-so? They're not formally defined, there aren't multiple functioning implementations, it's just not a good idea.
Re:China hires over 100 TSMC engineers in push for chip leadership
on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @03:22PM (#24135730)
Thousand Talents Program. I hope these engineers don't plan on going back to Taiwan, it probably won't be allowed by the Communists.
Re:Snapdragon chip flaws put 1B Android phones at risk of data theft
on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @11:54AM (#24133306)
I welcome you to read the Android privacy policy. It's all explained in there for you.
Re:Why Wikipedia Decided to Stop Calling Fox a ‘Reliable’ Source
on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @11:53AM (#24133284)
All news is propaganda. That's its function. Billionaires own media outlets so they can brainwash the people dumb enough to still believe the media. Whether they are right or left informs your opinion about if that's good or not. Fox bad, MSNBC and Vice, good.
Re:Stopping deepfake news with an AI algorithm that can tell when a fa...
on Sunday August 09, 2020 @01:34PM (#24101229)
The deepfakes which support the officially blessed narrative will not receive scrutiny, while authentic videos will be "proved" to be deep fakes by some black box machination.
But we've known not to trust anything we didn't personally see ourselves for many decades.
Re:Google speakers are listening to more than just voice commands
on Saturday August 08, 2020 @01:25PM (#24093371)
Yet any of the smart home speakers on the market is more than capable of compressing audio.
Re:Postal Service loses $2.2B in 3 months as virus woes persist
on Saturday August 08, 2020 @01:08PM (#24093218)
I don't believe that's a reliable source, sorry.
Re:Postal Service loses $2.2B in 3 months as virus woes persist
on Saturday August 08, 2020 @12:36AM (#24089005)
Citation needed...
Re:An Inside Look at CloudKitchens
on Friday August 07, 2020 @05:24PM (#24086598)
It's not the case, because it's not possible for food to be cheaper after prep and delivery. It's cheap, but not cheaper than making your own food from scratch. And there's no oversight or health inspections for this mass prepared food either.
But you know this, it's why you said "seems to be" instead of "is," very nicely done.
Re:Postal Service loses $2.2B in 3 months as virus woes persist
on Friday August 07, 2020 @05:20PM (#24086558)
Maybe they should start charging Amazon more money to deliver packages than what it actually costs the USPS? Nah that's crazy.
Re:Huawei CEO: After September 15 No More Kirin Chips
on Friday August 07, 2020 @05:09PM (#24086485)
What they're not saying is that the Chinese will have to completely shut down many of their silicon foundries because of a lack of specialized chemicals only available from the USA and Japan.
Re:An Inside Look at CloudKitchens
on Thursday August 06, 2020 @05:00PM (#24075418)
>It will soon be just as cheap to have your food prepared and delivered as going to the grocery store and making it yourself.
No, no it won't. Why would a person claim something so ridiculous? I can understand if you never leave your little Soho / Bay bubble, but do real actual people honestly think this?
Re:Busted retailers use bankruptcy to break leases by the thousands
on Thursday August 06, 2020 @04:58PM (#24075407)
They used to be. That all stopped in the 1990's.
Re:Feds move to block California’s net neutrality law
on Thursday August 06, 2020 @04:47PM (#24075298)
Are you a natural born citizen? You should know exactly why things work out this way if you are and there's no excuse for your confusion. If you're a green card holder or other non-citizen you can be forgiven for being ignorant, I suppose other nations don't teach people how America works. But if you're on a path to citizenship in any capacity please learn how America works and why. Otherwise you'll be frustrated and unsure of why things work the way they do forever.
Re:Busted retailers use bankruptcy to break leases by the thousands
on Thursday August 06, 2020 @04:16PM (#24074987)
Oh no, not the poor poor commercial real estate developers! Anyway all the malls died like decades ago. Have you been to a mall lately? As far as I can tell the only people who go are folks engaged in drug transactions and busloads of tourists from SE Asia.
Re:Levandowski sentenced to 18 months in prison as new lawsuit against...
on Wednesday August 05, 2020 @11:51AM (#24062166)
uMatrix has prevented the following page from loading:
https://guce.advertising.com/collectIdentifiers?sessionId=3_...
Re:Twitter Hack Zoom Court Hearing Interrupted by Zoombombers
on Wednesday August 05, 2020 @11:49AM (#24062147)
Why are courts using Chinese spyware to conduct official business?
Re:Latest Firefox rolls out Enhanced Tracking Protection 2.0
on Wednesday August 05, 2020 @11:45AM (#24062103)
It all seems pretty pointless when every tracker tracks you by IP address and the only real way to defeat this is to use Tor, which BTW is blocked on an ever-growing list of sites.
Re:Trump fires CEO of TVA over replacing US tech workers with H1B workers
on Monday August 03, 2020 @03:24PM (#24042173)
So what you're saying is they can afford to hire non-H1B's.
Re:Trump fires CEO of TVA over replacing US tech workers with H1B workers
on Monday August 03, 2020 @02:35PM (#24041571)
Why not privatize it? Also, does it make a profit? If not, maybe privatization should be looked at. As far as I can tell it's always been a government-funded jobs program operating at a loss.
Re:Trump fires CEO of TVA over replacing US tech workers with H1B workers
on Monday August 03, 2020 @02:28PM (#24041478)
There is no excuse to hire a single foreigner into a jobs program meant to help the people of Appalachia. No excuse whatsoever.
Re:TikTok’s Chinese owner offers to forego stake to clinch U.S. deal –...
on Saturday August 01, 2020 @03:39PM (#24023267)
So will they be keeping all the intrusive spyware features as a part of this deal?
Re:Student group leader arrested on suspicion of inciting secession in HK
on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @12:55PM (#23988919)
One China Policy is about to fail in the West, the line was drawn. HK's special economic status has now been revoked, which was a wise move, but it's left China with no reason NOT to storm in.
Brace yourselves, Trump is likely to re-recognize Taiwan soon, reversing a terrible decision which was made as a concession.
Re:Gmail, Contacts, Assistant and Messages apps no longer support send...
on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @04:23PM (#23980262)
Clamping down on international funding of terrorism, and election integrity.
Re:Historical programming-language groups disappearing from Google
on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @03:16PM (#23979587)
It was a terrible idea to entrust ANYTHING to Google.
Time to de-Google the whole Web.
Re:Typometer: A tool to measure and analyze the visual latency of text...
on Sunday July 26, 2020 @12:53AM (#23954533)
You don't have to believe these claims you know. And you need to add up all the latencies of all the components in the chain, from your keyboard and mouse to DirectX or whatever it is...
Re:The “free speech debate” isn’t about free speech
on Friday July 24, 2020 @02:49PM (#23943163)
The fact that you were downvoted shows that social media companies and big tech nerds and brogrammers aren't fit to ruminate on intellectual matters.